Brazilian Piquet, the 55-year-old father of the rookie that races this year for Renault, suggested to the Spanish newspaper AS that the sex scandal is a storm in a teacup.

"I am very upset with him," Piquet laughed at Barcelona. "Very upset, because he didn't invite anyone to his party.

"Is there no-one in formula one who has ever had a sex party?" he mischievously wondered.

The farce of Mosley's waning grip on his FIA presidency, however, continued on Friday evening, when the 68-year-old said he understood why Israel uninvited him to the country following his meeting with sports minister Galeb Majadle at the Jordan Rally.

"I look forward to resuming contact with him when the News of the World's deliberate and calculated lies have been comprehensively refuted," he is quoted as saying in an official statement.

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